Decision date: 13 December 2017
“PROFESSIONS AND TRADES – Where medical practitioner found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct – consideration of appropriate protective orders under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law.”
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Decision date: 6 December 2017
“Unsatisfactory professional conduct – improper and unethical conduct. Breach of Conditions Imposed by Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW. Whether conduct amounted to professional misconduct. Where practitioner does not attend the hearing.”
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Decision date: 8 December 2017
“PROFESSIONS AND TRADES – HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS – MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS – DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS – OTHER MATTERS – where the practitioner applied to the Board for the removal of conditions previously imposed upon his registration by the Tribunal by consent – where the Board refused to remove the conditions – where the practitioner applied for a review of that decision – where the Tribunal removed the conditions upon the practitioner’s registration and imposed a separate set of conditions – where the parties were subsequently requested to make submissions on costs – whether the interests of justice require the Tribunal to make an order as to costs.”
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The BMJ Opinion, 11 December 2017Author: Robin Baddeley
“For a hungry press, the case of Hadiza Bawa-Garba is the gift that just keeps giving. It has all the ingredients for necessary outrage: the death of a disabled child, protracted legal proceedings, and angry patient advocates who perceive the closing of ranks by a profession more willing to protect their own than admit responsibility for clinical failings. The case drives a wedge deeper into the increasingly fractured relationship between the profession and its regulator, the General Medical Council (GMC). Such professional distrust makes for good stories; suspicion sells in all directions.”
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